Non-work

A consideration of some of the issues surrounding the definition of work therefore leads to the identification of a number of different ways in which it is possible to define work, and by extension, non-work.

Certainly, all those who qualified for a disability benefit worked less. Of the vocational and other non-medical interventions covered by this study, this process was found to be the most significant indicator for non-work at the end of the follow-up period.

Greenhaus & Beutell (1985) were one of the first to define work/non-work conflict, whereby non-work was interpreted in terms of “family” (and therefore excluding responsibilities and activities beyond the immediate family).

If an artist, in creating works, implies infinite non-works (i.e. work produced cannot replace other possible works and in fact prevents them), but is an obstacle to their development thanks to the limitations of his personality, then the single artist must be removed and all possible artists must have access to the project, as must, therefore, all possible arts.

The relation between man and a work of art differs from the relation between man and a non-work of art.

A text is a non-work, a text without significance, occupying no space in the charted terrain of discourse. In contrast, a work is a significant text, a text that has become a work when it is attached to an author or authors (proven or attributed) and is recognized as an example of a literary genre and/or an articulation of an intellectual tradition.